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In a moment we'll be speaking to intrepid Hungarian war reporter Boldi Giori.

This recently witnessed the emotional return of some of the

Ukrainian soldiers released in the recent prisoner of war swap. It's an extraordinary bit of reportage,

very powerful and moving. But first the news, and the big question this week is,

have the scales finally fallen from the eyes of American President Donald Trump with regard to Russia?

It might appear so from recent statements.

First came on Sunday after three days of massive Russian drone and missile attacks on civilian targets in Ukraine, which killed dozens of people,

referring to Russian President

Vladimir Putin in a post on his truth social network, Trump said, I'm not happy with what Putin

is doing. He's killing a lot of people, and I don't know what the hell happened to Putin.

I've known him a long time, always got along with him, but he's sending rockets

into cities and killing people, and I don't like it at all. He went on, he's gone absolutely

crazy in his habitual block capitals, exclamation. He is needlessly killing a lot of people,

and I'm not just talking about soldiers.

Well, does that mean that he's finally woken up to reality to what any kind of intelligent

adolescent knows is going on? Has Donald Trump finally got on the same page as the rest of us all?

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